Taking Action to end poverty and inequality and for the Millennium Development Goals is this year’s Stand Up call.
Below is a list of some suggested types of action that you can take as part of your Stand Up and Take Action event.
Some Suggested Actions
Hunger / Poverty Related
- Organise a free lunch/food distribution
- Distribute free improved seeds, fertilisers
Child / Education Related
- Donate used-books / stationeries
- Build / Reconstruct/retrofit community schools
Health / Public Sanitation Related
- Blood donation Camp
- Improve basic sanitation facilities
- Mosquito nets distribution
- Free medical check-up camps
Environmental Related
- Tree plantation campaign
- Mobilise community to protect trees
- Mobilise community to build / clean / maintenance of public parks/ponds
- Car-pool/Car-free day
- Waste recycle / No plastic bag campaign
- Setting up appropriate technology fares in the 3 days
Actions / Activities aimed at petitions and communications / popular education
Formal Statements
- Public speech
- Letters of opposition or support
- Signed public declarations
Communication with wider audiences
- Slogans, caricatures, and symbols / displays / caravans
- Group or mass petitions
- Banners, posters, and displayed communications
- Leaflets, pamphlets, and books
- Newspapers and journals
- Records, radio, and television
- Sky-writing and earth-writing
- MDG quiz, debates, poster and essay competition
- Issue based MDG flag march or rally
- Web online / SMS actions
- Filing Right to Information (RTI) letters and petitions
Actions / Activities aimed at mass action / popular mobilization/dissent
- Public speech as part of mobilisation activity
- Displays of flags and symbolic colours
- Wearing of symbols – e.g. White bands
- Prayer and worship
- Delivering symbolic objects
- Protest disrobing
- Humorous skits and pranks
- Performances of plays and music
- Singing / Requieming
- Public concerts
- Marches
- Parades
- Religious processions
- Teach-ins on MDGs
- Deputations / Delegations to Government
- Mock awards – Worst performed of MDGs
- Group lobbying
- Overloading of facilities by emails / faxes / letters
- Sit-in to Stand Up
- Stand-in to Take Action
- Mill-in to Stand Up
- Pray-in
Psychological Intervention
- Self-exposure to the elements – Semi-nude actions
- The Fast – Individuals / Groups / Mass / relay
- The Fast of moral pressure to deliver on promises
- Hunger strike to protest Government inactive on MDGs
- Satyagrahic fast to assert truth
